10th August
Terrific speakers took to the stage yesterday, lead on by Rufina Daah, our Toastmistress for the evening.
This was not Rufina’s first time in the role and her comfort was evident: she chaired the meeting with confidence and humor, and dealt admirably with the unexpected.
Sean McKenna bluffed us all with a speech 2 that sounded much more advanced. He warned us about the deceptive side of fake honey with a speech entitled ‘Nutritional Robbery’… We all took note. In a funny little twist, he later was evaluated by a fellow hay fevered honey lover, who had previously made a speech about bees.
Egor Shipovalov, ever the wordsmith, told us tales of tenor tessiture ( see what I did here?)
Hari Kalymnios: tried out the latest version of his competition speech entitled ‘Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living’ which managed to convince a few members of the audience to take on Vipassana meditation.
Monday’s meeting also saw the return of our Stella Meadows as grammarian who showed no sign of nerves after her 5 month hiatus.
As ever, the masterfully tut-tutted our filler words and applauded our metaphors, similes and other rhetorical devises.
Our timekeeper Michell McNicholas handled her gavel with authority and Sarah Peacy introduced our many guests with a welcoming smile.
During the second part of our meeting we heard Peter Francis, Sheldon Dee and Femi Asaolu evaluate the prepared speech.
We then moved on to table topics presented by our quirky Swarajit Das who followed up on Rufina’s holiday theme of the night.
Eight lucky souls were asked to recall their best and worst holidays, how far they would go to get an upgrade etc…
It was GE Anis Qizilbash’s second time evaluating our club and we hope to see her back very soon indeed.
Next meeting is on 24th August.
